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    System76’s highly anticipated COSMIC desktop environment written in Rust, continues to develop with the 5th alpha release, which is accompanied by new ISO images of the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS distro.
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  5. GNU/Linux and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  7. today's howtos
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  8. Linux 6.6.71
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  9. Auto-cpufreq 2.5 Introduces Fedora 41 Support and Bug Fixes
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  11. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Works on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board
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  20. Browsers: Tor Browser 14.0.4, Tor Year in Review, and Midori Browser 11.5
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  24. today's howtos
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  25. Games: Space Invaders, OrangePi Neo, and More
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  26. KDE: Snaps 24.12.1 Release, Kubuntu Plasma 5.27.12 Call for testers
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  27. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - Okay, but glory all be from the past
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  30. I rescued my dying 2017 MacBook Pro with Ubuntu and it works like a charm (mostly)
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